Since September 2020, Dr Elena Hadjimbei has been a lecturer in clinical dietetics at the Department of Life Sciences of the School of Sciences at the European University of Cyprus. She graduated from the Department of the Science of Nutrition and Dietetics at Harokopio University of Athens in 2003. She completed her postgraduate studies in clinical nutrition at the University of Glasgow, as a fellow of the Institute Harokopou, in 2005. Dr Hadjimbei completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology, and Food Science of the Cyprus University of Technology in 2020. Her research interests focus on the dietary habits of the population and on functional foods as an alternative means of disease prevention and wellbeing. Furthermore, Dr Hadjimbei is member of the Cyprus Registration Board of Food Scientists, Food Technologists, and Dietitians and she is currently the secretary of the Cyprus Organisation of the Mediterranean Diet.